DOI Heft:
No. 39 (June, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Huish, Marcus Bourne: A little appreciated side of art: Chinese snuff bottles
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0031
Chinese Snuff Bottles
a considerable flourish, fine specimens are not often with an ill-suited silk of pink or blue, showing that
encountered there. In America there are some fine the artistic perception which designed them has
collections in private hands. As regards cost, it at not descended to their vendors. They look
present ranges from a sovereign to ten pounds, daintiest, in my opinion, on satin, and a cream white
midway between these two being the price of a is the best for showing off the varied and beautiful
good specimen. colours of which the illustrations to this paper can
They are for the most part sent over to this give no hint,
country in cases shaped to their size and covered Marcus B. Huish.
FIG 15 —WHITE CRYSTAL PAINTED INSIDE FIG. iC.—GREEN PORCELAIN FIG. 17.—WHITE CRYSTAL PAINTED INSIDE
a considerable flourish, fine specimens are not often with an ill-suited silk of pink or blue, showing that
encountered there. In America there are some fine the artistic perception which designed them has
collections in private hands. As regards cost, it at not descended to their vendors. They look
present ranges from a sovereign to ten pounds, daintiest, in my opinion, on satin, and a cream white
midway between these two being the price of a is the best for showing off the varied and beautiful
good specimen. colours of which the illustrations to this paper can
They are for the most part sent over to this give no hint,
country in cases shaped to their size and covered Marcus B. Huish.
FIG 15 —WHITE CRYSTAL PAINTED INSIDE FIG. iC.—GREEN PORCELAIN FIG. 17.—WHITE CRYSTAL PAINTED INSIDE